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The beatitudes
The beatitudes: or A discourse upon part of Christs famous Sermon on the Mount. Whereunto is added Christs various fullness. The preciousness of the soul. The souls malady and cure. The beauty of grace. The spiritual watch. The heavenly race. The sacred anchor. The trees of righteousness. The perfume of love. The good practitioner. By Thomas Watson, minister of the word at Stephens Walbrook in the city of London.The beatitudes: or A discourse upon part of Christs famous Sermon on the Mount. Wherunto is added Christs various fulnesse. The preciousnesse of the soul. The souls malady and cure. The beauty of grace. The spiritual watch. The heavenly race. The sacred anchor. The trees of righteousnesse. The perfume of love. The good practitioner. By Thomas Watson, minister of the word at Stephens Walbrook in the city of London.
London: printed for Ralph Smith, 1660
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
SECT. 7.
A check to the unmerciful.
2. IF this be the Effigies of a good man, that he is of a Use 2 merciful disposition, then it doth sharply reprove those that are far from this temper; Reproof. their hearts are like the scales of the Leviathan, shut up together as with a close seal, Job 41.15. They move only within their own circle, but do not indulge the necessities of others;1 they have a flourishing Estate, but like him in the Gospel, they have a withered hand, and cannot stretch it out to good uses. They have all, quoad [Greek or Hebrew], not quoad [Greek or Hebrew], these are a Kin to the Churl Nabal. 1 Sam. 25.11. Shall I take my bread, and my water, and give it unto men whom I know not whence they be? It was said of the Emperor Pertinax, he had a large Empire, but a narrow scanty heart*.
2. IF this be the Effigies of a good man, that he is of a Use 2 merciful disposition, then it doth sharply reprove those that are far from this temper; Reproof. their hearts are like the scales of the Leviathan, shut up together as with a close seal,